Elyse Ashburn

Editor at Work Shift, @workshiftnews. Focused on the leading edge of education, workforce, and economic opportunity. Tweets are my own.

[Alec MacGillis @AlecMacGillis]

Quite a headline on WSJ editorial page:

[Paul Fain @paulfain]

https://t.co/6YMZoOeFzi

[Elyse Ashburn @elyseashburn]

Looks like the @UOPX may have a buyer soon. Last winter @paulfain and I talked to them about the university's overhaul and the likely sale to a nonprofit.
https://t.co/pXvnS43Cly

[Arkansas Times @ArkTimes]

SCOOP: UA System-affiliated nonprofit looking at possible purchase of University of Phoenix, @nottalking reports. #arnews https://t.co/xJFysUuGB3

[workshiftnews @workshiftnews]

ISAs, once the purview of bootcamps and other for-profits, are starting to take off among state governments and nonprofits under a new name, @lilah_burke reports.

https://t.co/lBhPlMnKPu

[Elyse Ashburn @elyseashburn]

Apropos of today’s news that Sen. Sasse is likely leaving the Senate to be the next president of @UF

[workshiftnews @workshiftnews]

As the geography of jobs shift in the US, it presents challenges for colleges like @SouthwestTN, @TrinityValleyCC, @CGTC, @brightpointccva and the students they serve.

https://t.co/MBEYPkdVUO

[workshiftnews @workshiftnews]

#Highered needs to produce 2-3x the number of semiconductor engineers in the next 5 yrs—not to mention other skilled workers for fabrication plants.

https://t.co/xv79U63Sp3

[workshiftnews @workshiftnews]

As apprenticeships take off in the US, #unions are in the driver’s seat.

+Of the 50 largest registered #apprenticeships, 50%+ are run by unions, according to our analysis of fed data.

@NABTU, @AFLCIO, @UAW

https://t.co/36jknI0wkr

[Lilah Burke @lilah_burke]

Community colleges have been many things. I wrote about what they could be. Thanks to @paulfain and @elyseashburn https://t.co/jceiA6JBLJ

[workshiftnews @workshiftnews]

"Labeling short-term programs that lead to low-wage jobs as 'low-quality' obscures the true problem: the labor market failure that leads to the prevalence of undervalued, low-wage jobs in today’s economy," writes Michelle Van Noy of @RU_SMLR.

https://t.co/CXhmWHWC2I

[Elyse Ashburn @elyseashburn]

@erichoov

[workshiftnews @workshiftnews]

For decades, society has paid low wages for the jobs of caring for others — and the colleges that educated those workers didn't need to to think about the moral implications of that.

That thinking has changed, writes @KatieMasterson1.

https://t.co/KIJzbMydKm

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

🚨NEWS: We have a deal. Today a bipartisan group of 20 Senators (10 D and 10 R) is announcing a breakthrough agreement on gun violence - the first in 30 years - that will save lives.

I think you’ll be surprised at the scope of our framework.

1/ Here’s what it includes:

[Elyse Ashburn @elyseashburn]

Enrollment in undergrad certificates—a type of short-term program everybody says they want—fell 5.2% this spring, after holding steady in the fall. A blip? Certificates not short enough?

[workshiftnews @workshiftnews]

"We’ve talked for years about college degrees being the ticket to the middle class and to better jobs—and there are a lot of questions" about that now, says @dtshapiro.

https://t.co/RCnmqOguqP

[Elyse Ashburn @elyseashburn]

My home.

[Christopher Hooks @cd_hooks]

This has been a bad few days, and I've rarely been more angry about the state this state is in. https://t.co/1maFJhFZY3

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

For more than 60 years motor-vehicle crashes were the leading cause of death for young people in America. But since 2017 guns have killed more people between the ages of one and 24 ⬇️ https://t.co/LeQTIbdics

[Yoni Appelbaum @YAppelbaum]

Few things I’ve ever edited haunt me the way this one does. I cannot forget the descriptions of what high-velocity bullets do to children’s bodies: https://t.co/RSHFyVheuH

[Jeff Selingo @jselingo]

👇From the former executive editor of the @seattletimes and now a dean at @TempleUniv

[workshiftnews @workshiftnews]

@Deloitte jumps into bachelor's completion with @ASU and @Northeastern—part of a larger project led by @GetSetLearning. Two years of tuition for a two-year job commitment.

https://t.co/VGyzCjjUZ0

[workshiftnews @workshiftnews]

"We’ve seen a change in the calculus for employers in the tech industry in ways that we wouldn’t have seen five years ago," says @AngelaHanks of ETA @USDOL.

Our explainer series looks at what that means for new #education paths in tech. #asugsvsummit

https://t.co/lj6jDfmHcu